Re: Map Library

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 13:17 -0500, Michael Terry wrote:
> Hello, gentle gnome-control-center maintainers!
> 
adding g-c-c list to CC

> I noticed that the 3.0 control center has a ported version of Ubiquity's 
> timezone map.  When implementing the spec for indicator-datetime's 
> preference dialog [1], I also wanted the same timezone map and am now 
> interested in avoiding having so many copies of the code and data 
> floating around the world.
> 
> In the short term, I'm just using a static library consisting of a 
> patched version of the map from the control center.
> 
> But long term, maybe 3.2, would you consider splitting the map into its 
> own library so that all three projects (GNOME, ubiquity, and 
> indicator-datetime) can use it?  (or putting it into an appropriate 
> existing library)
> 
> There are some additions that Ubuntu would need (and I can provide 
> patches for):
>   * A GtkEntryCompletion object that grabs names from a geonames server 
> (would not need to be tied to the map, just something that both ubiquity 
> and indicator-datetime would use and would be a convenient place to keep it)
>   * The ability to add a string watermark (to meet geonames.org 
> attribution requirements)
>   * The ability to query what timezone is nearest a long/lat pair
> 
maybe it would make sense in libchamplain?